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IN Sir Henry Craik's very full 'Life of Jonathan Swift' it is stated that "to Swift the will of [Sir William] Temple left little beyond the doubtful privilege of editing his works. The provision was small, and the duty was specially irksome...... The works, which were issued in five volumes, at intervals of some years, seem to have been well received...... Finally, Swift's duties as editor brought him into violent and public collision with Lady Giffard, who assumed the part of defender of her brother's reputation against the neglect of Swift."-Second edition, vol. i. pp. 95-6. But it would seem from the advertisement columns of the contemporary London newspapers that there was something of "violent and public collision,' though in another quarter, at the very start. on 27 Jan., 1698/9: and on the eve of his Temple died departure to Ireland in the summer of the same year, as chaplain and secretary to Lord Berkeley, Swift prepared for publication the first volume of Temple's remains. It is, therefore, of special interest to find that in The Flying Post; or, The PostMaster, "from Thursday, May 18, to Saturday, May 20, 1699," as well as in The Post Man, and the Historical Account, &c., of the same date, appeared the following advertisement :— Yesterday was published, his being Ambassador at the Hague, to the Earl of Letters written by Sir William Temple, during Arlington, and Sir John Trevor, Secretaries of State to K. Charles II. Wherein are discovered Hand: And Dedicated to the Right Honourable many Secrets hitherto concealed. Published from the Originals, under Sir William Temple's own Sir Thomas Littleton, Speaker of the House of Commons. By D. Jones, Gent. Printed and are to be Sold by A. Baldwin in Warwicklane. May 23/25, and in The Post Man of June 1-3; This was repeated in The Flying Post of but in the former journal of June 1-3 a revised advertisement ran thus :— during his being Ambassador at the Hague, in the The Letters Written by Sir William Temple, Reign of King Charles II. being lately published from the Originals by a Person of undoubted Reputation, who has already and is still ready to produce them of Sir William's own Hand Writing to seller having purchased the said Letters for a any that are curious to see them. And the Bookvaluable Consideration, if any out of Malice or extraordinary kind Reception) he must expect the Interest reprints them (they having met with an first Undertaker will do himself Justice, either by a speedy Abridgement of any Copy, such a Pirate hath or shall hereafter print; or, by printing the same in a very small Character, as he thinks it worth his while. The Originals may be seen where and in the manner the Preface directs. And the Genuine Letters was only sold by Anne Baldwin, near the Oxford Arms, in Warwick-Lane. But simultaneously a counterblast was Post, both of June 1-3, in these terms:advertised in The Post-Boy and The Flying Swift (to whom Sir William Temple, Baronet, left I am directed by the Reverend Mr. Jonathan the care of his Writings) to give Notice, that with all convenient speed he will publish a Collection of Letters from the Year 1665 to 1672. Written by Sir William Temple, Baronet, containing a compleat History of those times, both at Home and Abroad, which Letters were all Reviewed by the Author some time before his death, and digested into method by his Order. JACOB TONSON. dispute is to be found in the contemporary From this point no further trace of the journals, and it may be concluded, therefore, to have been amicably arranged; but it is of the more interest to find this early cononly by means of advertisement, seeing that nexion of Swift with The Post-Boy, though in Esmond' (Book III. chap. v.) Thackeray's hero, "having writ a paper for one of the Tory journals, called The Post-Boy......was sitting at the printer's, when the famous Doctor Swift came in... the Doctor, in a grating voice that had an Irish sume you are the editor of The Post-Boy, sir?' says ⚫I pretwang.. 'I am but a contributor, Doctor Swift,' says Esmond." But Swift himself, of course, had emphasized such a connexion, in what proved his greatest political days, by recording on the Christmas Day of 1711, in his 37th Letter to Stella, concerning "poor Mrs. Long :"I have ordered a paragraph to be put in The Post-Boy, giving an account of her death, and making honourable mention of her; which is all I can do to serve her memory"; and again, in the 55th Letter, under date 17 Nov., 1712, he wrote: "I have been drawing up a paragraph for The Post-Boy, to be put out to-morrow, and as malicious as possible, and very proper for Abel Roper, the printer of it." This discovery of 1699 is of the more literary interest not only because it shows a close connexion between Jacob Tonson and Swift long before that previously known, but because the "D. Jones, Gent.," who coolly described Swift as a Pirate," was obviously that wondrous author-adventurer who wrote The Secret History of White Hall from the Restoration of Charles II. down to the Abdication of the late King James,' and for whose career see 'D.N.B.,' vol. xxx. pp. 92-3, and 1 S. xii. 267; 4 S. xi. 154. ALFRED F. ROBBINS. "Come, let us criticize him. Our qualifications for this high office need not be investigated curiously"; and of his contention further on :— "It is a good thing to be positive. To be positive in your own opinions is the best recipe, if not for happiness, at all events for that far more attainable commodity, comfort. A noisy man,' sang poor Cowper, is always in the right,' and a positive man can seldom be proved wrong.' 66 be I venture to maintain the converse of this double proposition, and to hold that Mr. Birrell himself in this instance, while being both " noisy " and "positive," is decidedly not "in the right," and can easily proved wrong.' And be it remembered, on the toe-line of the inquiry, that a demolition of the first statement carries with it that of the two subsequent clauses. For years I have been the lucky possessor of the fine print (engraving, in my case) presumably referred to, which bears the following inscription : Arlington Street, Mornington Crescent. The ProLondon. Published 1854 by Owen Batley, 4, tector dictating the Letter to the Duke of Savoy to stop the Persecution of the Protestants in Piedmont, 1655. From the original Picture in the possession of James Watts, Esqr, Abney Hall, Cheshire." CROMWELL AND MILTON: A FAMOUS stop PICTURE. MR. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL in his essay on Milton ('Obiter Dicta,' Second Series) says: "There is a print one sees about, representing Oliver Cromwell dictating a foreign despatch to John Milton; but it is all imagination, nor is there anything to prove that Cromwell and Milton were ever in the same room together, or exchanged words with one another." Within the limited compass of this passage there lie three statements which clamour loudly for refutation. Why their cry has been unheeded for, or been stifled by the dust of, twenty years and more is a present mystery to me. It is high time to give heed to the call and respond in no uncertain tones. Had that call reached my ears when first uttered, it would have received an instant hearing and a quick response; as it is, its strident notes have but recently arrested my attention, and I hasten, after so long an interval, to give the answering call. In his first assertion Mr. Birrell pours an airy scorn upon the print he refers to by branding it as nothing but a freak of imagination. He will hardly resent a fair if drastic criticism of this random utterance in the teeth of his own invitation to the readers of his other essay on Johnson : Between the words Savoy" and to " is inserted a circle with the words "Magnum Sigillum. Reipub. Angliæ. Scotia. et. Hiberniæ on its inner rim, embracing the quarterings of the three kingdoms, with the motto "Pax quæritur Bello beneath them on a scroll. I have twice inspected the original picture at Abney Hall, a fine stretch of canvas overlooking the grand staircase and entrance hall, and regarded it, in my ignorance, as a splendid, if imaginative (because non-photographic) presentment of an actual fact. Mr. Birrell says it is worse than imaginative: it is imaginary. Will this Let us see what can be made of both. judgment stand an impartial investigation ? In a foot-note to Milton's exquisite sonnet 'On the late Massacre in Piedmont' it is stated (in my edition of the poet) that "in 1665 the Duke of Savoy determined to make Roman Church. All who refused compliance with his reformed subjects in Piedmont return to the the sovereign's will were masacred. Those who escaped, concealed in their mountain fastnesses, sent to Cromwell for relief Cromwell commanded a general fast, and a national contribution for the relief of the sufferers. 40,000l. were collected. He then wrote to the Duke; and so great was the terror of the English name the Protector threatened that his ships should visit Cività Vecchia that the persecution was stopped." If this be sound history, the truthfulness of |